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Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Hardcover, New): K. Mallan Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Hardcover, New)
K. Mallan
R2,349 Discovery Miles 23 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many children learn from a very young age about the importance of always telling the truth. They also learn that telling lies is necessary if they are to survive in a world that paradoxically values the truth but practises deception. Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction demonstrates how this paradox is played out in texts for children and young adults, how secrets and lies may be a necessary means for survival and adaptation, and how mendacity may have its virtues. Kerry Mallan examines a wide selection of international texts, spanning several decades, including picture books, novels, and films. By drawing on diverse fields of scholarship, Mallan makes important connections between children's literature, philosophical and moral complexities, and cultural and social tensions. Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction provokes thinking about what passes as 'the truth', the consequences of truth telling and lying, and the sacrificial arbitrariness of scapegoating.

Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): K. Mallan Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
K. Mallan
R2,142 Discovery Miles 21 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals.

Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (Hardcover): K. Mallan Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (Hardcover)
K. Mallan
R1,550 Discovery Miles 15 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This engaging study examines diverse genders and sexualities in a wide range of contemporary fiction for children and young people. Mallans insights into key dilemmas arising from the texts treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy are provocative and trustworthy, and deliver exciting theoretical and social perspectives.

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - Utopian Transformations (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008): C. Bradford,... New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - Utopian Transformations (Paperback, 1st ed. 2008)
C. Bradford, K. Mallan, J. Stephens, R. Mccallum
R1,557 Discovery Miles 15 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - Utopian Transformations (Hardcover, First): C. Bradford, K.... New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - Utopian Transformations (Hardcover, First)
C. Bradford, K. Mallan, J. Stephens, R. Mccallum
R1,551 Discovery Miles 15 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"New World Orders" demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. In examining a diverse range of international children's literature and film produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics, giving shape to children's perceived anxieties and desires. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - Utopian Transformations (Paperback): C. Bradford, K. Mallan, J.... New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature - Utopian Transformations (Paperback)
C. Bradford, K. Mallan, J. Stephens, R. Mccallum
R1,518 Discovery Miles 15 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of children and young people. "New World Orders," now in paperback for the first time, shows how texts for children and young people have responded to the cultural, economic and political movements of the last fifteen years. With a focus on international children's texts produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have to say about globalization, neocolonialism, environmental issues, pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the posthuman. This fascinating volume is the first thorough study of how children's books imagine and propose possible worlds and societies.

Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009): K. Mallan Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
K. Mallan
R1,557 Discovery Miles 15 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This engaging study examines diverse genders and sexualities in a wide range of contemporary fiction for children and young people. Mallan's insights into key dilemmas arising from the texts' treatment of romance, beauty, cyberbodies, queer, and comedy are provocative and trustworthy, and deliver exciting theoretical and social perspectives.

Blackbirch - The Ritual (Paperback): K. Mallan Blackbirch - The Ritual (Paperback)
K. Mallan
R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blackbirch - The Dark Half (Paperback): K. Mallan Blackbirch - The Dark Half (Paperback)
K. Mallan
R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blackbirch - The Beginning (Paperback): K. Mallan Blackbirch - The Beginning (Paperback)
K. Mallan
R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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